Hi Bill, Toni paid me a visit in the afternoon and analyzed my errors. Seems they were caused by the graphics card, or the insufficient performance thereof.
On Feb 1, 3:05 pm, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > My first guess without knowing anything is DirextX. Is the resolution on the > second monitor the same? Try making it the same as the first monitor or > changing it. Resolution is the same with all 3 screens. Are your display drivers up to date? The newest Matrox had. > I'd really like to know where Naali turns if it's disabled? Haven't tried > this yet but it's on my list. I've had some querks on Windows machines > (Windows 7) that were a bit flakey or either the video drivers were out of > date or the machine was too new. Updating the drivers seemed to help me on > the laptop I was running on. Well, in our case it seemed to be the low FPS. > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, ilikia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 1, 12:33 pm, Toni Alatalo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:29 PM, ilikia wrote: > > > > > for my MSc thesis, I need to implement a multiple-screen realization > > > > with realXtend. The Cave functionality works initially just fine, but > > > > Sounds great. I'm coming to visit the uni this afternoon btw, from 13-> > > on - might have time around 15 or so if you wanna show your crashes first > > hand :) (call/sms 040 7198759 if want to meet, am curious to here about the > > thesis if you want to tell what it is about). > > > OK, around 15 hours. > > > > > as soon as I drag and drop the new viewer windows onto another screen, > > > > Naali freezes, creates a crash dump file and has to be stopped with > > > > Task Manager. This has happened five times now, a 100% failure rate. > > > I finally managed to make Taiga work at localhost, and the graphics > > driver is now run in compatibility mode. Both of which helped to such > > extent that at least when I'm using the local Taiga, cave does not > > crash. Avatar freezes, though. > > > > Mikko Alaluusua, who wrote the CAVE rendering module and has used it > > most, is not at work today but can perhaps give hints later this week. > > > Thanks very much for your help. > > > > Perhaps that is sensitive to how the multi screen setup is made, i.e. > > whether the same desktop is streched over all or whether they are > > independent etc. Perhaps someone who has used the CAVE stuff succesfully can > > tell what they did, I've never tried it yet. > > > > > I've tried to make sense of the .dmp files, but they are in binary and > > > > even though I've opened them in a hex editor, I cannot figure out the > > > > reason of the crash. > > > > Those dumps are to be analyzed with microsoft visual studio. You can copy > > the .dmp to where your viewer.exe lives, and if have msvc installed can just > > click to open it there. Then press the play button to run it, and it shows > > where the crash happened. > > > Ok, great, will try that next time. > > > > Without the sources and a debug build or the PDB debug files you won't > > see much -- but you might see in what dll the crash happens and what the > > error type was, and sometimes a bit of a call stack, so it can be helpful. > > But probably is required to add an issue to the google code tracker, attach > > the dump, and we need to analyze it in a dev/debugging env. > > > > ~Toni > > > Ok, thanks once more. > > > -- > >http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > >http://www.realxtend.org -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
